Hi!

Am 14.06.2011 05:45, schrieb Steve M. Robbins:

>> Checking reverse dependencies...
>> # Broken Depends:
> Are reverse dependencies a hinderance to removing the source package?

In that amount?  Yes. On request of the release team we might ignore
some breakage.


> I thought that the binary packages stick around in the archive until
> they are no longer referenced, then automatically removed.

That's true for testing:  Packages get removed from unstable, but will
stick in testing till the dependencies are resolved.  So removing
boost1.42 will still cause quite some annoyances in unstable.


>> # Broken Build-Depends:
> 
> I know that build-deps are a problem.  I don't know why I
> had overlooked that.
> 
> I checked out the current state and there are presently 7
> packages with build-deps on Boost 1.42.  I've filed a bug
> for each of the following source packages:

Thanks!


Best regards,
  Alexander



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